Africa picture news

01-04-2025

Hottentots are the most mysterious people of the Black Continent

African Hottentots are considered the most mysterious inhabitants of Africa. They once inhabited large areas south of the equator. ...

29-03-2025

The tragic life and death of the Pygmy Ota Beng, a living ...

He was the last of his tribe, all of whose members were killed by Belgian soldiers. Despite the fact that slavery in the United ...

29-03-2025

The story of Rosalie Gicanda, a queen who remained with her ...

Rosalie Gicanda is a name that is still spoken with warmth and respect in Rwanda. This woman, who became the queen of a small ...

28-03-2025

Portraits beyond the edge

Photographer Marc Garanger took these photos in Algeria during the War of Independence (1954-62). He happened to work there as a ...

23-03-2025

Africa of the 50-70s of the last century through the lens of ...

For Westerners, Africa is either national parks and tourist attractions or endless wars and starving children. It is very rare to ...

23-03-2025

The Man-Eating Trees of Madagascar: Fact or Myth?

Insectivorous plants that hunt small animals are known to everyone. But it is extremely difficult to believe that there are trees ...

15-03-2025

Ugliness for the sake of happiness: how mothers in Africa and ...

The concepts of female beauty in different countries differ significantly. The canons of attractiveness have been formed for ...

14-03-2025

Tears for money: who are the professional mourners of Ghana

Some people find it difficult to show emotions when their loved ones die, but crying and mourning are an integral part of funerals ...

09-03-2025

The anomalous Lake Fundudzi is the pearl of South Africa, the ...

Lake Fundudzi is one of the few lakes in South Africa and, according to tourists, the most beautiful. It is located in the Republic ...

05-03-2025

The amazing city of Ghadames on the edge of the desert

Ghadames, known as the "pearl of the desert", is located in an oasis in the south-west of Libya (the historical region of ...

04-03-2025

Tippi from Africa-The famous Mowgli girl

Tippi Degré is an unusual girl who spent her childhood in Africa surrounded by wild animals that became her best friends. She was ...

28-02-2025

Always on top: why Banna men prefer to walk on stilts

For most of us, stilts are something from the realm of entertainment. These devices are most often associated with the circus and ...

27-02-2025

Wildebeest migration — a leap of fate

Remember the scene from the cartoon "The Lion King". Yes, yes, the one in the gorge. In life, everything happens almost the same ...

25-02-2025

Schindler's Witch: The woman who saved hundreds of lives ...

She was considered a witch, but it was thanks to this that she saved hundreds of people from certain death. So embodied evil ...

24-02-2025

The Mysterious Skeleton of Hans Reck, Who Lay in the Ground ...

Modern humans, similar to us, appeared only about 100 thousand years ago. Among the species that lived before, there are many of ...

21-02-2025

The Cradle of humanity

Ethno-photographer Joey Lawrence took these expressive pictures in the Omo Valley in Ethiopia in 2010. Due to the dense jungle and ...

20-02-2025

What is Afrofuturism and what ideas is it based on?

We usually associate Africa with half-naked savages, exotic predators, impenetrable jungles and crazy dictators. Therefore, the ...

19-02-2025

How is a beauty pageant among the men of the tribe wodaabe ...

Wodaabe — the nomadic tribe that lives on the territory of Niger, Cameroon, Nigeria and Chad. Once a year the men of this ...

18-02-2025

What children play in African slums

Everything is learned in comparison. Today our children are spoiled by an abundance of toys, thanks for this to commodity abundance ...

16-02-2025

Nasreddin Dinet: French artist who converted to Islam

In the 19th century, traditional European art depicted the countries of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia as an exotic world ...

15-02-2025

I'll be damned! This is the only surviving pirate graveyard

If you ever get the idea of watching whales come to the surface, there is no better place than the island of Nusi Buraha off the ...

15-02-2025

The life of a giraffe is a daily hell and all because of the ...

These animals are, without exaggeration, is known to us from early childhood — we saw them in cartoons, zoos, in the alphabet ...

13-02-2025

Involuntary terrorist: how a crocodile became the culprit of ...

An amazing tragicomic incident occurred in August 2010 in the sky over the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A miniature aircraft ...

08-02-2025

Witch camps in Ghana — how women who have become victims of ...

Even in the 21st century, there are places on our planet that have been forgotten by civilization. These include Ghana, a country ...